January 22, 2010

Austin Handmade Music Workshop #4

The Nebulophone!

On Sunday, January 18th, I attended the 4th Austin Handmade Music workshop at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, put on by the Church of the Friendly Ghost.For this workshop we made a little synth called the Nebulophone, created by John Michael (Dr. Bleep) from Bleep Labs.The Nebulophone is a little bit like the Stylophone in that it has a little metal keyboard that you run a stylus type device on… its an alligator clip on the Nebulophone.This arduino based synth features an arpeggiator, an LFO that modulates an analog filter, as well as a waveform generator, which allows you to choose between: saw, square, triangle & noise wave forms.The arpeggiator can be clocked over IR and can hook up with the other devices we have made in previous workshops:

This little guy sound great and is really fun to play with. I think this is my favorite kit we've done in the series so far! The next workshop is on February 28th at the Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin TX.For more information or to sign up for the next workshop go HERE